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Texas Bend, Missouri

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Tywappity Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63834. The Survey maps it on the Charleston quadrangle.

Texas Bend within Mississippi County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

5 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Texas Bend in 2019, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
4 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179341-06732-09042019-1535
27 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179340-06732-09272019-2220
26 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresMissouri Department of Conservation179343-06732-06262019-1415
22 March 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179344-06732-03222019-1830
2 January 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178197-80001-01022019-1650

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mississippi County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Charleston4.1 miles13
Hough5.3 miles13
Rumsey Spur (historical)5.7 miles13
Hallett (historical)5.8 miles13
Never Spur (historical)6.2 miles11
Bertrand7.0 miles11
Catalpa7.5 miles13
Alfalfa Center8.0 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 730309. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.